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November Rain was always cringy to me, it was back then and I still think so now. (I believe even Axl said he doesn't like it anymore now). But that's my opinion, I just prefer more simple and artistic music videos. Anton Corbijn has made some of my favourite music videos, especially in the 90s. I like the videos to Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" and R.E.M.'s ''Losing My Religion" a lot too. Estranged was a bit better because of the cool live shots, but also quite cringy. Don't Cry is better because of the abstract, artsy scenes in it, although them playing on a roof with a helicopter flying above them screams total Hollywood again, which just isn't my cup of tea for a music video.

No one even knows what is being released, that’s our point.

It’s herd behaviour here as always. One person starts whining and the usual suspects immediately join in. That’s why they are here. And when you say something about it, they get offended, haha.

I was listening to Evan Dando while registering and I think there was already an Evan, hence the G.

It's great, I had a gig with it a few months back and I'm happy with it. This is the one I ended up buying, the honey burst,

Uncut Gems (2019)

Oh, I don't. I made a joke about my age, eventually I admitted it. What else do you want?

Huh?

I think you're mixing it up. Rovim was talking about the Double Talkin Jive solo and so am I.

I remember a discussion on here about this many years ago. Some poster, I forgot the name, who claimed to be an Izzy expert and studied his guitar playing or some shit like that, was convinced it was Izzy playing that solo.

Ah, I was hoping they would keep it to two guitars again now Jeff is gone. For a lot of the new stuff they don’t need three guitars anyway and the old stuff maybe does but they made it work live with two guitars for a long time. Plus, I love Billy’s lead playing, I don’t want to see anyone else taking over half of it.

Happy New Year to you too!

When your hair is as thin as Axl's and you've had several hair transplants over the years, it's time to let the dream go. Duff's hair is still thick, he can get away with long hair even at his age.

I think apart from Hamburg and Dresden, I have been to every major city in Germany. But I prefer Belgian or French cities regarding architecture, which is usually my main reason to go to a city anyway. Munich is nice, but it's no Antwerp, for example. And except for Berlin of course. That's not a pretty city either, but everything else there makes up for it.

I watched a documentary about Liquido's song "Narcotic" recently and they visited the singer in Heidelberg because that's where he wrote the song. It's only 4 hours from here but I had never heard about it before. Looks like a charming town, though.

He was, but he stayed in touch with some of us through email and then he went through some personal shit and stopped responding to all of us at the same time. We reached out but from what I know none of us ever heard from him again. (or have you, @cineater ?) He didn't seem like the kind of guy to not even bother to write a message back, so I fear the worst. But I sure hope I'm wrong.

I fear Soon went there, but I'm sure most others just stopped posting.

Maybe to some. I was 11 in 1993 and to me and my friends and kids a few years older, they were the coolest thing in the world and definitely not our dad's band. Now I can imagine that to some kids in their late teens or 20s they had become perhaps more laughable because of the changing climate in rock music, but it wasn't that way for everyone. Not too different from Aerosmith, and they were more popular than ever in the mid 90s.

I don't know if they became untrendy. I got into them in late 1993 and they were still all over the place. I remember so many MTV specials around them on TV all the time, and this was MTV Europe, so everyone in Europe was watching the same MTV back then. For people who had jumped on the alt-rock band wagon they maybe weren't so cool anymore, but there was still so much hype around them.

The whole argument that those so-called grunge bands being the demise of GnR never added up when you realize that GnR scored some of their commercially biggest hits in 1992, the year grunge peaked, and even in 1993 there was still a lot of demand for GnR. That scene did make GnR look a bit foolish in certain ways because being a rockstar wasn't cool anymore, and they were no longer the most dangerous band in the world, but they were still very popular among many people. And that wouldn't have changed if they released some really great songs in the mid 90s. Heck, even Sympathy For The Devil, released in december of 1994, was a top ten hit in many countries, and it was ''just'' a cover. Imagine if they had released another You Could Be Mine or November Rain.

I think they would have if they had managed to keep making great albums. To the OP's topic, I remember them still being in many teen/pop magazines in the mid 90s even though they hadn't released an original song since 1991, so the popularity was still there.

Always loved Circle Of The Noose. I know Flea never spoke too fondly about their work with Navarro, but they made some good songs with him.

1993. Officially in 2021.

I agree with all. I think I've probably said this before in this thread, but I hope the next record with John is a bit different. I know they can do it, look at By The Way. And I do like the funk/pop thing, but I've heard it before and Anthony's rap/singing lines are becoming too recycled now for my taste, so I hope that they try something else or else I don't think I will be very interested. I already wasn't too interested anymore in the ROTDC record.

After Stadium Arcadium Flea enrolled into music school and learned to play piano during their two year hiatus and some of the songs on I'm With You and The Getaway are more piano driven and have a sombre sound and that's not for everyone, but I liked it and wish they would have explored that direction more. I feel that with John back in the band they're also back to the funk/pop/rock thing more again, and they do that very well obviously, but I wish they would have continued exploring that other direction more.